Embossing press



Jan, 27, 1925,l

H. M. SEAGERS EMB OSSING PRESS Filed Jan. 5, 1924 3 Sheets-Shed 1 lNvEmjoR Har-1y M. Jeager.

BY' Arf-w ATTORNEYS H. M. SEAGERS EMBOSSING PRESS l5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Jan. 5, 1924 INVENTOR Harry/1% @enge/:5.

ATTORNEY 5 Jam 27 1925.

H. M. SEAGERS EMBOSSING PRESS Filed Jan. 5, 1924 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 mmf INVENTOR /nrzy/l. Seagens ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 27, 1925.

. UNiTED "STATE-s HARRY 1151'.` SEAGERS, OF GENEVA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 HU LSE MANUFACTURING PATENT JAorifice.

COMPANY, OF- GENEVA, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK,

Vruieiiaossma PRESS. j

Application :tiled January 5, 1924. Serial No. 684,585.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HARRY M. SEAGERS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Geneva, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Embossing Presses (Case No.7), of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates very particularly to improvements in presses for forming signs, advertising cards and the like by punching characters from paper and forcing them into a sheet of card board or other backing, preferably of a contrasting color.

One of the main objects of the invention is to provide a simple `'and effecient typeholding means for the press. Another object of the invention 'is to provide a very simple, eicient means for holding lines of type, said means being independently adjustable and removable from a type-holding frame. Another object ofthe invention is to provide a simple means for holding the type in any desired position on the line-v holding means.

rlhere a-re other important objects and advantages of the invention which will appear hereinafter. y A l lu the drawings, Figfl is a front elevation of an embossing press with the invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 a side elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 a vertical central sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. l; Y

Fig. 4 a detail bottom plan view of one corner of the type-holding frame;

Fig. 5 a plan view of the type-holding frame and the carriage to which said frame is attached;

Fig. 6 a side elevation of the type holding frame and carriage;

Fig. 7 a plan view of a type carrying bar;

Fig. 8 a front view of the type carrying bar shown in Fig. 7

Fig. 9 a plan view of a spring clip for securing the type carrying bar in the type holding frame;

Fig. 10 a side elevation of the spring clip shown in Fig. 9;

Fig. 11 an outer end view of thel type bar securing clip;

Fig. 12 a plan view of a type spacing The press illustrated in the drawings is `constructed substantially as shown in application` Serial No. 570,589, filed June 24, 1922 and need not be described herein in detail. The type carriage and type holder described herein is especially adapted for use in a press of the kind illustrated and. described in the aforesaid application for patent, but of course it is not necessarily limited to use in that type of machine.

The press body comprises an integral heavy metal casing of general rectangular form, the bottom wall 1 of which isadapted to rest upon a pedestal or other support and to be rigidly secured thereto if desired. The top wall 2 of the press body is connected to the bottom wall 1 by integral, vertical side walls 3 and 4. The top wall 2 is provided with a flat under surface 5 lying in a horizontal plane and said wall forms a fixed head or platen of the press. rllhe shiftable head or bed of the press comprises a thick oblong metal block 6 having flat upper and lower surfaces lying in parallel, horizontal planes. The bed 6 slides vertically between the end walls 3 and 4 and is suitably guided. The bed 6 is forced upwardly through the medium of a steel cam shaft 7 having two fiat faces 8 and 9 at diametrically opposite points. The cam shaft is provided with two arcuate diametrically opposed working faces 10 and 11. The surface 10 is slightly eccentric to the axis of the shaft while the surface 11 is concentric with the axis of the shaft. On one projecting end of the cam shaft is rigidly secured an operating handle 12 by means of which the cam shaft may be rotated.

The cam shaft 7 is interposed between two rigid and relatively heavy flat thrust plates 13 and 14. rllhese thrust plates are shiftable edgewise in opposite directions by reason of their frictional contact with the cam shaft when the hand lever is operated. 105

between t-he upper thrust plate 13 and the cross bar 24 is rigidly connected to the side pressing operation.

under face of the bed 6 of the press. A set bars 22 by means of corner plates 28 which of anti-friction rollers 1li are interposed bebi'idge the joints between the ends of the tween the lower face of the thrust plate 1 4 cross bar 24 and the inner side edges of the and a rigid portion of the press frame. 1t side bars 22. These' corner plates extend is manifest that by rotating the cam shaft rearwardly and form a part of the hinge conthe bed 6 will be moved upwardly for the nectioii between the type-holding frame and the springs 27. The yielding connection be- The card-holding carriage comprises a. tween the type-holding fraine'and the carbroa-d flat plate or base 17 which rests upon riage is to permit the holding-frame to be andis sldable over the fiat top face of the forced downwardly toward the carriage, as bed 6. This plate is slidably and detachably will be hereinafter described, in the operaheld to the bed, and guided to move directly tion of the press. This yielding connection foreanda.ftthereof by means of a steel rod also permits the type to be faced squarely 18 having a sliding tit in a hole 19 bored against the paper and the card board. By horizontally through the bed 6 from front to reason of the permanent connection between rear midway the ends of the bed. The rod the type-holding frame and the table 17 the 18 may be inserted in, and withdrawn endtwo parts may be moved together back and .detached therefrom. tached' to the guide and retaining rod 18 by 2 the type-holding frame may be thrown wise from, the hole 19 when the carriage is forth through the press. By drawing the The carriage is attable forward to the position shown in Fig.

inserting the reduced forward endof the. rod upward y and rearwardly, lea-ving the upper in a hole formed in a flange or tongue surface of the table free so that the card stamped downwardly-'from the forward end board and `paper that is to be operated upon of the plate 17 and then passing a screw n iay be quickly and accurately placed in potlirough a hole in the rear of the plate 17 sition thereon. The type-liolding frame will and into a threaded hole in the rod 18, said be free to slide back and forth with the carscrew passing through a spacing sleeve interriage in the space between the platens 6 and posed between the plate 17 and the rod 18. 2 when the movable pressing plate-n 6 is By removing the screw the rod may be delowered, as shown in Fig. 3. taohed from the carriageand then the rod The embossing type are adapted to' be and carriage removed from the press. mien mounted on type-carrying bars 29. These the parts are assembled the carriage is held bars are preferably thin Stips of metal against movement in 'all directions relatively beveled along their longitudinal edges and to the body except a sliding movement forerounded at their ends. The bars are beveled and-'aft of the press. The upper surface of downwardly so that their upper surfaces the plate is fiat and smooth and is designed are slightly narrower than their lower surto receive the card board into which the sign faces. These bars are detachably and adjustchanacters are-to be impressed. The forward ably connect-ed to the side bars of the typeend of the carriage is provided with a. suitholding frame by spring clips 30. These able handle 20 by means of which it may be clips are substantially U-shape and are of the readily shifted back and forth to the desired Same width as the bars 29. The upper meniposition in the press. ber 31 of each clip is formed along its lon- A swinging type-holding frame 21 is pivgitudinal side' edges with depending gripotally mounted on the carriage 17 near the ping flanges 32 which are adapted to fit rear end thereof. This frame consists of down over the longitudinal side edges of the the two side bars 22 connected at their forbars 2S). The inward or free end of the ward ends bythe forward cross bar 23 and at upper member 31 is bent upwardly to form their rear end by the rear cross bar 24. The the upwardly and inwardly inclined flange type-holding frame is an open frame sub- 33. The purpose of this flange is to enable stantially equal in width to the carriage 17 t-lie clip to be readily slid inwardly over the and the side bars thereof are provided with end of the bar 29. The ends of these bars transverse scale marks 25 by means of which are beveled, as shown clearly in Fig. 7 so the type-carrying cross bars are accurately that the flange will easily ride up over aligned in parallel relation across the carsaid beveled portion when inserting the cli s riage. The rear end of the type-holding in clamping position. As shown clearly in frame is mounted on pivots 26 which are Fig. 10 the clips are slid inwardly and emsupported on the forward ends of flat springs brace between their upper and lower inem- 27 rigidly secured to the upper surface of the bers, the side bars of the type-holding frame carriage. These springs are offset and stand and the ends of the type-carrying bar. The-se above the upper surface of the carriage so clips are of suflicient strength to prevent any that the type-holding frame is yieldably supslight accidental sliiftin of the type-carryported by said springs a short-distance above ing bars in the type-holding frame, but. as the surface of the carriage and may yield they form a yielding clamping connection downwardly toward the carriage. Therear between the bars, the type-carrying bars may readily be shifted in the type-holding frame to place them in the desired position. When it is desired to remove the type carrying bars it is only necessary to detach the clips 30 thus leaving the type-carrying bars to be removed from the type-holding frame. By reference to Fig. 11 it will be observed that the gripping flanges 32, whenthe clip is in position, will lie along the beveled longitudinal edges of the type-carrying bar and hold the clip in position.

The press is adapted for use with sets or fonts of embossing type of various sizes and styles, said type comprising blocks 34 having the usual cut-ting type faces 35. Each type is provided in its back or upper nonprinting surface with an undercut or dove tail groove `36 adapted to receive a type carrying bar, as shown clearly in Fig. 14. The transverse grooves of the type are accurately cut so that the type when threaded on the type-carrying bars will be accurately aligned so that the base lines of the type will be in accurate alignmentacross the type-holding frame. By this means all the type on a type-carrying bar will be accurately alignedwithout regard to the size of the letter and without regard to the character of the letter. rlhis is clearly illus-4 trated in Figs. 7 and 8 of the drawings. In order that the type may be accurately and properly positioned on the typeca'rrying bars spacing clips 37 are employed. These clips are of spring metal and are formed with a body part 38 and upwardly and inwardly turned gripping fingers 39. Each gripping linger is formed at its inner end with an upwardly and inwardly inclined gripping fiange 40 which is adapted to bear on the beveled longitudinal edge of the typecarrying bar. These spacing clips are slid on the bars from the ends thereof with the body portion -38 under the bar and the flanges 40 in engagement with the beveled longitudinal edges of the bar. The upper edges of the flanges 40 are flush with the upper surface of the bar 29 when the spacing clips are in position, and no portion of the spacing clipprojects above the upper surface of the said bar 29. The under cut grooves 36 in the types are equal in depth to the thickness o-f the type-carrying bars so that the body of said types will notproject above the upper surface of the bars but will be flush therewith. rlhis is desirable when the type-holding frame and the type are between the platens for the pressing operation. At the rear of the carriage, and extending transversely thereof, is a forwardly facing card gauge and clip l1 under which the rear edge of the card board sheet is adapted to be placed. By means of this clip and gauge the card board sheet may be quickly and accurately placed on the carriage in proper position to receive the type impression.

The upper platen`2 of the press is provided with channels 42 at its ends to receive the cli s 30 on the ends of the type-carrying bars w ich ar-e between the platens.

To facilitate the assembly of the type on the type-carrying bars the upper non-printing faces of the type are stamped with the character ofthe type so that the reading matter of the sign may bel reaid.y from the back or top of the type-holding frame when it is all assembled..

The operation is as follows: The carriage is drawn .forward to th position shown in Fig. 2. The type to form each line of the reading matter of the sign are slid endwise ona type-carrying bar Aand placed in proper position thereon.

Spacing clips are. then slid on the bar from each end to lock the type in the desired position on the bar. It will be understood, of course, that the spacing clips may be used between letters, between words and at the ends of words. lVhen the type are properly arranged on a type carrying bar said bar is placed across the type-holding frame and secured in position thereon by means of clips 30. lVhen the bar has been clipped to the holding frame it may be adjusted along the side bars thereof to the desired position.l The transverse'gauge marks 25 on the side bars of the holding-frame assist in properly placing the type-carrying bars. By arranging one longitudinal edge of the type-carrying bar on corresponding marks on the two side bars the type-carrying bar will be correctly placed transversely of the holding frame.. All of the type-carrying bars may be accurately placed in parallel arrangement by this means and, of course, they may be suitably placed apart along said side bars. After the type are arranged in the holding frame the said frame may be swung upwardly and rearwardly to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The card board on which the sign is to be made is now placed on the carriage with its rear edge under the gauge clip 41, and a sheet of colored paper, or pieces of variously colored paper, placed thereon in proper position to be engaged by the type. The type-holding frame is then swung forwardly and downwardly until the type rest on the paper. The position of the type with respect to the paper and card b oard is noted and the proper arrangements and proper relative positions of the parts are assured. -When proper registration is obtained the carriage is slid rearwardly to bring the type between the platens. The operating handle is then pulled rearwardly and downwardly to elevate the platen 6 and to cause the type to engage the under surface of the head 2. This forces the type into the card board, cutting the desired letters and forcing the cut out letters into the card board in the usual manner of presses of this type. In making large signs a plurality of successive pressing operations are necessary, the carriage being moved rearwardly in successive steps and after' each pressing operation to bring a new set of type between the platen. When the .pressing operation is completed the carriage is drawn forwardly again to the position shown in Fig. 2, the type holding' frame swung upwardly and rearwardly and the card board sign removed from the carriage. .l j

It is manifest that the yielding connection between the type-holding trame and the carriage 17 permits the type-holding frame to be maintained parallel with the face of the carriage during all operations. The spring support for the type-holding frame yields during the pressingl operation.

What I claim is: l u

1. An embossing apparatus comprising a bed, a platen, means for imparting relative movement between the bed and platen, a type-holding frame slidable transversely ot' the bed and into and out ot' position between the bed and platen androckable away from said bed, means for yieldingly supporting the type-holding Jframe to permit said 'trame to yield bodily in the pressingr operation, type-carrying bars, and means for removably attaching said bars to the type-holding frame.

2. An embossing apparatus comprising a bed, a platen, 4means for imparting relative movement between the bed and platen, a carriage slidable transversely of the bed and between the bed and the platen, a typeholding frame pivotally connected at its rear end to said carriage, means for yieldingly supporting the said type-holding frame at its pivotal connection with the carriage, type-carryingl bars, and means for detachably connecting said bars to the type-holding frame.

3. An embossing apparatus. comprising a bed, a platen, means for imparting relative movement between the bed and platen, a carriage slidable transversely of the bed and between the bed and the platen., a type-holding frame pivotally connected at its rear end to said carriage, means for yieldingly supporting the said type-holding frame at its pivotal connection with the carriage, type-carrying bars, means for detachably connecting said bars to the type-holding frame. and a card gauge mounted on the carriage near the rear end thereof.

4. An embossing apparatus comprising a bed, a platen, means for imparting relative movement between the bed an'd platen, a carriage slidable transversely of the bed and between the bed and the platen, a type holding frame connected to said carriage and yieldingly supported for a. bodily movement toward the carriage, and means for removably mounted type in said holding frame.

5. An Iembossing press comprising a bed, a platen, means for imparting relative movement beween the bed and the platen, a rod slidable transversely through the bed and fore-and-aft of the press, a carriage rigid] connected to said rod and slidable fore-an aft of the press between the laten and bed, a type-holt ing frame pivotalll connected at its rear end to the carriage an slidable with the carriage transversely ofthe bed intoand out of osition between the bed and platen and roc able away from the carriage when and rockable away from the carriage when.

withdrawn from between the bed and the platen, type-carrying bars, and means for detacliably connecting said bars to the typeholding frame.

7. An embossing press comprising a bed, a platen, means for` imparting relative movement between the bed and the laten, a rod slidable tranversely through t e bed and fore-and-aft of the press, a carria e rigidly connected to said rod and slidab e ore-and-aft of the press between the platen and bed, a type-holding frame pivotally connected at its rear end to the carriage and slidable with the carriage transversely of the bed into and out of position between the bed and platen and rockable away from the ear- -riage when withdrawn from betweenthe bed and the platen, type-carrying bars, means for detachably supporting type on said bars, and means for detachably and adjustably connecting said bars to the type-holding frame.

8. An embossing press comprising a bed, a platen, means for imparting relative movement between the bed and the platen, a rod slidable transversely through the-bed and fore-and-aft of the press, a carriage rigidly connected to said rod and slidable fore-and.- aft of the ress between the )laten and bed, a type-hol ing frame pivotal y connected at its rear end to the carriage and slidable with the carriage transversely of the bed into and out of position between the bed and platen and rockable away from the carriage when withdrawn from between the bed and the platen, means for yieldably supporting the type holding frame at its pivotal connection with the carriage to permit the said frame to have a bodily movement toward the carriage during the pressing operation, and means for removably mounting type in said holding frame.

9. A type-holding frame for embossing presses, a support for said frame movable transversely of the press to adjust the said frame to proper operative position, typecarr ing bars adapted to extend transversely of the holding frame, means for adjustably supporting type on said bars, and removable spring clips for detachably and slidably connecting the ends of said type-carryingrbars to the type-holding frame. l

10. A type-holding frame for embossing presses, a support for said frame movable transversely of the press to adjust the said frame to proper operating position, typecarrying bars adapted to extend transversely of the holding frame, means for adjustably supporting type on said bars, and removable substantially U-shape spring clips adapted to embrace the type-holding frame and the ends of the type-carrying bars and detachably and slidably connecting the said bars to the said frame.

11. A type-holding frame forembossing presses, a support for said frame movable transversely of the press to adjust the said frame to proper operative position therein, type-carrying bars adapted to extend transversely of the holding-frame, type adjustable along said bars, detachable means for holding said types in theiradjusted pos1- tions on said bars, and removable spring clips detachably connecting the ends of said type carrying bars to the type-holding trame.

12. A type-holding frame for embossing presses, a. support for said frame movable transversely ol the press to adjust the said frame to proper operative' position therein.,

` type-carrying bars adapted to extend transversely of the holding frame, said bars being beveled along their longitudinal edges, type having under cut transverse recesses in their non-printing faces and adapted to be slid into engagement with the beveled typecarrying bar, spring spacing clips adapted to be slid along the longitudinal edges of the type-carrying bars to adjustably lock the type in position thereon, and removable spring clips detachably connecting the ends of said type-carrying bars to the type-holding frame.

13. A type-holding frame for embossing presses, a support for said frame movable transversely of the press-to adjust the said frame to proper operative position therein, type carrying bars adapted to extend transversely of the holding frame, said bars being beveled along their longitudinal edges, type having under cut transverse recesses in their non-printing faces and adapted to be slid into engagement with the beveled type-.carrying bar, said recesses being of sufficient depth to receive the type-carrying bar wholl within them whereby the upper surface o the bar and the upper non-'printing surfaces of the ty e will be Hush, spring spacing clips adapted) to be slid along the long1tudinal edges of the type-carrying bars to adjustably lock the type in position thereon, and removable spring clips detachably connecting the ends of the said typecarrying bars to the type-holding frame.

14:. A type-holding frame for embossing presses, a type carrying bar adapted to extend transversely of the holding frame, means for adjustably supporting type on said bar, and removable spring clips for detachably and slidably connecting the ends of said type-carrying bar to the type-holding frame, each of said clips4 being substant1ally U-shape and adapted vto straddle the end of the type-carrying bar and the adjacent side of the type-carrying frame and formed with flanges to engage the opposite side edges of said bar.

15. A type-holding frame for embssing presses, type-carrying bars adapted to extend across the holding frame, said bars being beveled along their longitudinal edges, type having undercut transverse recesses in their non-printing faces and adapted to be slid into engagement with the beveled type-carrying bar, means detachably connecting the ends of said type-carrying bars to the type-holding frame` and spring spacing clips adapted to be slid along the longitudinal edges of the type carrying bars to adjustably lock the type in position thereon, each of said clips being formed of a strip of sheet metal bent upon itself` at its ends and looped at the bends and having its free opposed ends formed. to engage the opposite beveled edges of its type-carrying bar and its central portion adapted to extend across and bear upon said bar.

16. An embossing apparatus comprising a bed, a platen. means 'for imparting relative movement between the bed and platen. a carriage slidable transversely of the bed and between the bed and the platen, a pair of fiat springs'secured to the upper side of the carriage near its rear end and having free forwardly extending ends olf-set above the upper surface of the carriage, a typeholding frame, means for pivotally connecting the rear end of saidtype-holding frame to the free off-set ends of the said fiat springs, whereby the type-holding frame may yield bodily toward the carriage, and means for removably mounting type in said holding frame.

17. A type-holding frame for embossing presses, a support for said frame movable transversely of the holding frame, said ber 5 be slid into engagement with 'the beveled type-carrying bar, devices adjustable longi-Q tudinally of the type-carrying bar to adjustably lock the t in position thereon, and means detaeha i; connecting the ends of seid type-carlying bur to the type-holding frame.

In testimony whereof 1V hereunto affix my signature.

HARRY M. SEAGERS. 

